Artist: Mackenzie Mario Benato
Year: 2024
Materials: Hand carved sandstone stamps with gouache and acrylic on paper A3
Size: 420mm high x 297mm wide
Titles:
- map
- decorative vine
- snake pillars
- medusa
- snake fertility coil no.1
Stones taken from a rubble bin, over 2 years.
Flat faces made by bridge saw.
Sprays water, catches sand, makes mud. Protects lungs.
(sandstone) (dust) (silica)
Carved into stamps. (hammer)
(chisel) As motifs.
They feel good in the hand, heavy, rough.
Your fingers find veins and grooves your eyes can’t. The stone absorbs,
water, paint, shock wave and then,
breaks, transforms, remembers.
Each stamp is a long story.
